Hypnotized by the minimum wage – Mero Moment, 6/3/14
I got my first job when I was 15 years old loading groceries into cars at one of the nation’s first membership stores in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. I made $2.15 an hour that, for a 15 year old in...
View ArticleA reminder of Utah’s lost energy opportunities
This just in! There’s energy in the ground, and there’s money and jobs to be had in energy. OK, maybe that’s old news. Not that it matters that much in Utah anyway, where the ground is mostly owned by...
View ArticlePodcast: the states vs. the feds on public lands
Listen to Carl Graham, director of Sutherland’s Coalition for Self-Government in the West, in a podcast about control and use of public lands. Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory, Donald J. Kochan of Chapman...
View ArticlePoll: 82% of Utahns support right to work
Roughly 4 out of every 5 Utah adults support allowing union employees to leave their union without force or penalty, a concept generally referred to as right to work. That’s the finding of a new poll,...
View ArticleTo ease income inequality, smooth the path for innovators — Sutherland...
Today is Election Day, so I want to talk about an issue that is the driving electoral message of hundreds of political candidates nationwide. That issue is income inequality. Now the first thing to...
View ArticleA useful, non-shaming guide for working with women
Do men need a guide for how to work with women? Joanne Lipman, writing in The Wall Street Journal , has some suggestions, and they’re worth reading: The point isn’t to blame men. In my view, there has...
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